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Comment by rodmin

Ok, here's how it works.

Keristrasza has an ability named Intense Cold that stacks on players every 2 seconds, dealing 100 damage per second.

So, to have this achievement, the players have to defeat her in heroic mode while avoind 3+ stacks of the debuff, and for that the players must always move to remove the debuff. In short, players must not stand idle for more than roughly 4-5 seconds on the same place.

I'd advise all players to use spells with a maximum cast time of 2 seconds or less ready for this boss, and spec to those abilities for the maximum DPS if needed. healers will have to probably put aside their large heals and go with flash heals of 1.5 seconds or instant spells.

The worst part on this is another of her abilities, Crystal Chains, which root the players for 10 seconds. And they'll get stacks of Intense Cold while rooted, which is BAD!

The best combination for this boss would be a tank and 3 meele DPS players always moving to left and right and a discipline priest proficient with PW:Shield and the instant heal from the Holy Tree. Paladins can also work well here, as probably they can stand still for the duration of their bubble, immune to the ability. Hunter suffer a lot on this one, as they have to keep moving. A strategic alternative would be after each steady shot, jump twice and while jumping twice, use an instant shot, like Serpent Sting or Arcane shot. Dut to this, Multi-shot should not be used in this fight.

Edit: players can remove the debuff also by jumping. This is a good tip for healers ^^ ( thanks for the info, ncoffey )

P.S.: remember that she casts a tail sweep to players behind like Onyxia, so try to dps on the sides.

2nd Edit: changed the "pet" part, according to Carebear. Thanks mate. Instead, i've added a suggestion for hunters if they are having troubles with their steady shots, since they're great part of their dps.

Comment by jaxsonbateman

Due to Crystal Chains (immobilisation ability; magic debuff) you are going to want to bring a pally or priest for this one. Otherwise, to have any hope of completing the achievement (beyond extraordinary luck) the party will all need Free Action/Living Action potions.

Aside from that, move as much as possible, and use instant casts where you can. I know when I go for this (as a healadin) my Holy Shock button will get a workout, and I'll prob use Lay on Hands at some point to make things a bit easier.

Comment by gamemaniak

There is no need to move around, just jump. Jumping will just aswell remove the debuff or prevent it from getting applied to you.

I do have one question though, if you're resto shaman, how do you complete this achievement requirement? You can heal up the dps and yourself with a few riptides I guess, but what about the tank? The boss doesn't exactly hit like lightly. Boss hits for like 1.5k(melee on plate) on normal mode. I'm sure on heroic mode, she hits a lot harder.

Comment by generex

Might be a bit obvious, but still:No problem as a mage, just blink out of the roots (and of course move a bit after every cast).

Comment by Nazarene

This achievement is a obtainable for a single person in a group as long as they don't get more then 1 stack,

Comment by Malevolencia

As a protection warrior with the Warbringer talent, you can use intervene to free yourself from the chains. It is however possible for her to cast it more frequently than the cooldown of Intervene (she doesn't always, just it is possible) so have a free action potion ready, or if a gnome/human, be ready with escape artist/every man for himself.

Comment by evera

Easily done with Druids, shift out and in to get rid of the Crystal Chains.

I found an easy solution with any class is to wiggle, using the strafe buttons, if you haven't unbound them.Strafing is considerably faster than jumping.

For Feral Druids: Just move constantly, wiggling with your strafe buttons, Q and E by default. Shifting may be risky for you, but you should be fine.Resto: This fight should be easy enough that you don't need to cast HT. All of your other casts, if any at all, are under 2 seconds.Moonkin: Normal Starfire/Wrath rotation works, but Starfire takes longer to cast than Wrath, obviously. If you're having trouble getting the achievement, just IS+Wrath.

Comment by shibbidydoo

for hunters, Beastial wrath and master's call will solve all your problems.

Comment by Enquillion

Are you sure the others didn't already have it?

Comment by Mutti

For those classes that don't have many root-breaking abilities, using your pvp trinket will free you from Crystal Chains

Comment by Soulspawn

as a resto shaman i can see this one being a real pain in the ass, no escape abilities and most of my heals are long cast times

Comment by Ritavu

A discipline priest with 2/2 Focused Power can mass dispel in .5 seconds or less (depending on haste). With proper positioning and a good connection, the priest should be able to dispel the Crystal Chains from the entire party before Intense Cold stacks up to 3.

As long as the rest of the group is jumping and keeping their stacks down to 0 or 1, anyone in the party should be able to achieve this.

Comment by Flesseck

Yeah. Does anyone have any strategies for Resto Shaman?

The only thing I can think of is the PvP trinket. But those Crystal Chains are casted so often.

Comment by ledzepp358

question for earning this achievement for a shaman like myself.i recently specced for the earthbind totem to remove snare effects 100% everytime it pulses. does this remove crystal chains as well?

Comment by Merylyan

For my fellow gnomes :

It is obvious that Escape Artist removes Crystal Chains. But the long cooldown means you have to use it wisely.

Comment by neluz

this might be a bit party unfriendly but as the range on intense cold is only 50yards, could you just stay at 51yrds + and still get the achievement ?

Comment by Shadowstabs

This can be pretty easily done as a rogue.

You've got Cloak of Shadows, the 2 point Combat talent Improved Sprint that will give you 100% chance to remove all movement impairing effects, and the PvP trinket (or Every Man for Himself).

Assuming you have all 3 of those (or maybe more, if you're a Gnome for example), you'll be prepared to break the chains as soon as they come and get your achievement as i've never been in an encounter with her wherin she has cast the chain spell more than 3 times.

Comment by wasniahC

Why is this marked down? Its useful information.

Comment by firstartemis

For Feral Tanking druids. It's been said that shifting out is risky. This is very true, however, try this:

/cast !Dire Bear Form

You can only cast it in bear form, and u stay in bearform. It also gives you upto 10 rage.

Never got more than 1 stack of the debuff.

Comment by Chaserbl

just dispel it ;P

Comment by Klott402

Can Crystal Chains be resisted by stacking Frost Resistance?Has this been tried yet?

Comment by aeonvix

Since it has a 30s cooldown, I'd advise to have a Free Action Potion ready and a PVP medallion/ Every Man for Himself if you are human, just in case ;)

Comment by Rhianna2000

I just accomplished this achievement on my Resto Shammy.

First chains, a pally dispelled me. (Thanks Surf!)

Before second chains, I downed a Free Action Potion. I was good for the rest of the fight then.

MAX RANGE (the door way) and jump continually - Earth Sheild and Rip tide was all I needed on the main tank... no one else took any damage. I did need to pop one of my haste trinkets towards the end, and lost the tank at 1%, but we were able to still down the boss. The entire party (including the dead bear) got the achievement.

It is achievable with a resto shammy as long as you have a pally or priest to dispell and use a pot.

Comment by Nightshade90

Did this easily as Resto Druid. I was constantly moving throughout the whole fight casting hots and stopped only to Nourish when some relatively big spike occured. When he uses that nova spell, simply shapeshift out of it and keep moving. Easy.

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Comment by saepaan

As a paladin, of whom already have this achievement, I usually agree with someone in the group if anyone in particular wants the achievement. That way I keep an eye out on the individual, dispelling every snaring casted by the last boss.

Fellow priests and warriors of the holy light, there's money to be made!

Comment by Yggdrassil

When we first attempted this boss at heroic.. I was like.. damn this is gonna be easy.But after she casted like 3-4 of those chain, all I could think was never... gonna.. happen.Unless im stacking trinkes / pots etc or FrR :s

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Comment by madspiderman

I wonder if one of you can die and get the achievment since it never stacked on you for more then 2 and your group downed her.

Comment by Drenvion

For Death Knights: Anti-Magic Shell prevents you from gain more stacks of Intensive Cold, it will not remove the stacks though.

It should also prevent Crystal Chains however timing it can be difficult and when you are chained you will want to use AMS to stop you from getting over two stacks.

Comment by Cryptonyxx

For Death Knights;

If you are human, use your "Every man for himself" ability on the first chains, second, use anti-magic shell to cancel the debuff.

If you are not human; use anti-magic shell, and also have a insignia of the alliance trinket to remove chains second time.

Any more chains than that you'll be needing help from someone else.

Comment by Teradon

Since I've seen a lot of Resto Shamans (or just Shamans) asking: "How do I do this?", I'll try to explain how I almost did:

Since the chains are MAGIC, these can be dispelled by either a Paladin, or a Priests Mass Dispell.My tactic was simple: I only used Lesser Healing Wave, Riptide and Earthshield. and I jumped constantly (not while casting heals tho) whenever I could. I didn't strafe, since I had a chance of getting out of range of our "Mass Dispell'er priest".

I'm not sure why I didn't get the achievement, but I suppose it can be done seperated. (4 got it, I didn't)

Comment by Gilleion

This achievement is just too easy for an Human Unholy specced DK:

Keep moving/jumping and DPSing the boss, and when you get frozen the first time use your racial to escape.

Second time through, keep DPSing and just maybe 2-3 seconds before you're about to get rooted (I'm assuming you have DBM) use AMS. This will negate the effects of the Crystallize.

And if it looks like she's going to be able to get crystallize off a third time, pop AMZ 2-3 seconds before and you're home free.

Hope this helps.

Comment by GhostFlight

If your group doesnt mind, everyone goes in the room and dps's the boss while the person who needs the achievement hits the boss once and runs out of the room so he/she doesn't get the debuff or Frozen in place.

~Ghöst@Spinebreaker

Comment by Vinneh

As a DK you can use anti-magic shell before she casts it and that will prevent you from getting rooted, if you have a pvp trinket ready for the second time she casts it that should be more than enough with good dps.

Comment by sk8nguitar

Did this as a Human Death Knight Tank. Only got chained twice, first time I was chained I used Every Man for Himself to free me. Then the 2nd time I got chained I used my Anti-Magic Shell so it made me completely immune to the debuff stacking at all.

Other then that I just hit the space bar over and over and kept jumping in place spamming my ability. I actually didn't even know it was an achievement until I got it, I was just mainly trying to keep as much damage off me as possible :P.

Comment by Cryptonyxx

Are you people even bothering to check if you what your saying is already up? I've seen the same thing bout 4 times now.

Comment by turska

Warrior tanks this is how I did it!

Get a http://www.wowhead.com/?item=5634 from AH.As soon as you pull her start jumping and just spam jump all the time while sundering keep on jumping all the time while doing this look around you and find some party member who you can intervene. When she will chain you to the ground immediately intervene to a partymember (as a tank you should have warbringer talent that will free you from the chains) now after you are free use the http://www.wowhead.com/?item=5634 you bought from AH it will give you 30sec immune to the ice chain she uses as soon as the effect of free action potion has ended you can use once again intervene. If you are a gnome use escape artist as last ability (meaning you will use Intervene -> Free Action Potion -> Intervene -> Escape Artist) alltho as a gnome I didn't need to use escape artist so it is posssible for Nelfs and Dwarfs too who don't have Escape Artist and Every Man For Himself.

Shortly: 1. Jump all the time. 2. Intervene when you get first time chained. 3. After intervene use http://www.wowhead.com/?item=5634 . 4. Intervene on second chain. (5. Gnomes and Human use Escape Artist and Every Man For Himself as last ability after 2 intervenes and free action potion if you get chained for third time.)

Edit: This is individual achievement meaning YOU GET IT even if others in party fail in it.

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Comment by Warninggizmo

How I did this Achievement. - Experiment, Enhancement Shaman on Garrosh

1. Pull boss, pop Free action Potion (30 seconds) within 10 seconds after pull2. At this point I had resisted two Freezes, The next freeze I Popped my PvP trinket. 3 Ice breaks.3. Popped Spirit Wolfs, the last freeze popped and I used Spirit Walk to Get out of Chains.4. Dead Boss.

The trick to this boss is awesome DPS. If you can get 2 or more Chains to be casted on your 30 immunity with free action potion, it helps enormously.

Always have a PvP Trinket just in case.

(I believe the Chains are based on percentages? If this is the case, Free action potion = Win)

Comment by Wuam

How would i do it as a Human Warlock? ya i have the Every Man For Himself Spell, but what if she trapps me again before the CD is ready?

Comment by silverd

Has anybody tried just plain killing themselves at the start of the fight? I mean most achievement hunting groups will be geared enough to 4-man it. From what I can tell, all the guys that died and got the achievement died near the end. I'm just wondering if anybody has tried just getting naked at the start, and aggroing Keristraza to get themselves killed then letting their group finish her off.

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Comment by Yaska

Shamans can put down a Frost Resistance Totem for the group because it is possible for someone to resist the Crystal Chains.

Enhancement Shamans may also use their Feral Spirit's Spirit Walk ability. Spirit Walk will not only give you +60% movement for 15 seconds but it also breaks out of immobilize effects.

I do not know the cooldown for Spirit Walk but count on it only helping you once. If your group if good enough, you'll only fight through 1 or 2 Crystal Chains and you can be lucky to resist one of the Crystal Chains and Spirit Walk out of the second one.

That is how I got the achievement as an Enh Shaman. ^_^

Comment by Nuvelle

Confirmed from patch 3.1 onwards.

Comment by Dagnos

this is for hunters to get this achiv

first Crystal Chain : use medalion of the alliance or medallion of the Hordesecond Crystal Chain : use master call to use ur master call quickly use this macro/target your name/cast Master call

and after the second Crystal Chain drink free action potion

Comment by BobTheGreat

OK, here's how i did it as a death knight, wasn't very hard. All you'll need are Free Action Potion and Moist Towelette.Keep jumping from the start of the fight, after about 5-10 seconds into the fight, i used the free action potion, and you just keep jumping, you won't be affected by the crystallize until it wears off. Once the free action potion wears off, use Anti-Magic shell for the next crystallize. For the rest of the fight, use the moist towelette's. IF your group's dps is high enough, you may not need to use any moist towelettes.

Comment by pb7090

Question: if your pet gets Chains and gets 3 stacks does the hunter get the achievement?

Comment by tazul

Just got the acheivment, she only casted the root once, we all trinqueted out of it an manged to get the acheivment, draw of the luck i guess.

Comment by sebelas

did it yesterday and it was easy doable altho we had 1 bad attempt where we decided to let it be a wipe...we used 2 dps, 1 healer and 1 dispeller. ( me as a holy priest)the dps the healer and me were standing very close to eachother at the side of the dragon and close to the tank. if someone was chained, the whole group was chained and i cast mass dispell ASAP ! the range is 30 yards so everybody was in it. i made a macro /target tank & /cats dispell for the occasions where the tankgot chained and not the rest of the group. (happend 2 or 3 times) .we failed 1 time cos someone forgot to move, but the 2nd try was easy. It must say we had a good geared group so it is maybe a little more chalenging with a group in heroic blue.

Comment by ViolettSS

achiev looks bugged now - I got 4 stacks of debuff during fight due to frost nova and stil get an achiev

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Comment by wrackup99

ok i just found a way to do it when she freezes everyone right before she does it run to one of the doors and stay there run back to dps and when its about 5 secs left run to the doors and also bring a debuffer to let the tank get it to she wont freeze those near the dor so the ones near the door run around and soon u get ur acheive

Comment by Dangeren

When I got the achievement we all stacked around the tank and our priest just dispelled the debuff when she used crystal chains. I haven't seen anyone else mention the debuff can be dispelled.

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Comment by DippyDruid

A nice thing to know is that if you die before she casts Intense Cold and then the rest of the group defeats her you obtain this achievement...

...Being a noob has a use after all!

Comment by DeathWeasel

The range on Crystal Chains is 45 yards. Simply be out of range when she casts this and you can avoid ever being chained at all.

Comment by Guanyin

I managed to get an entire group through this one as a shadow priest. Since the normal "dispell magic" is an instant spell, no cooldown, it wasn't too hard to free others in time. Any proper addon (I used Grid) can be really helpful. It resulted in my dps being the 2nd lowest but the others didn't mind at all when they got the achievement.

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Comment by TuraTreesus

anyone know if feign death works for hunters? either dispelling the chains, or not giving them to you in the first place?

Comment by wiltzandrew

Very easy achievement if you are a Warrior. What I did was queue as DPS, and when I got to the fight, got naked, went Protection and attempted to tank it. I died in about 10 seconds and got the achievement.

Comment by Modibybob

Demonic Circle: Teleport works for warlocks.

Comment by Vlaz

So....How do warlocks do this?

Also, just tried this, was jumping (at the cost of DPS) and she froze me in the air. Not kidding.

Comment by Zefyron

Terribly easy to get as a mage-just blink.

Comment by HaveyJoe

A Living Action Potion will also break the root. Between that and my PvP trinket, I was able to earn this.

Comment by Chawor

I don't think that will work if you want the achievement. I don't suppose she'll cast it if you're feigned, but you'll probably get lots of stacks of intense cold from it. :)

Comment by RayOgg

With some dose of luck you won't need anything else (luck, in this case=experienced, well geared group - around 5k gs).I got group like this, was healing on my shammy (didn't even remember about this achv). When we pulled her we popped hero and other cds, I dpsed her a bit too, and we downed her the very moment she rooted us - boom, achievement earned!

Comment by Eviltwig

why does everyone think jumping is such a great idea? sure for a melee maybe as everything's instant and they might not want to move, but for a caster, it's very stupid.

let me elaborate:

any movement at all dispells the cold. Even one tap of a movement button is enough.A jump launches you into the air for about 0.5 seconds.A tap of a movement key takes 0.1-0.2 seconds.

a caster only really does damage only when standing still, fireball starfire, etc...

you are making this a lot harder for yourself by wasting time in the air instead of dpsing.

Comment by BlankVoid

The root can be outranged. As a Resto Shaman with a relatively poor group, I did not get any of the roots when I exited the room. I just popped Earth Shield and Riptide and spent most of the fight in the halls outside. I am relatively sure I did not get any of the debuffs either.

Comment by Bitnal

For all warlocks!It does not matter whether your pet gets more than 2 stacks of the debuff.So just keep your felhunter on passive next to you and make it devour magic as soon as u get crystalized.

Comment by Chimpy2

Gnome's Escape Artist ability does work here.

Comment by pntzi

Warlock's can now use their Imp's to dispell themselves :-D

Comment by dyne313

Annoying solo, 85 Hunter. Basically sent in turtle pet and stayed within range of Master's Call (25 yd) and Aspect of the Fox. When rooted use Master's Call and then get out of range of your mend pet, probably a little farther than that. Try to pick a time right after she /yells her whatever and run in real quick to refresh mend pet and get back out. When Master's Call is off cooldown run in after she yells and do as much damage as you can. Repeat. If you get more than 2 stacks, dismiss pet and FD, try again.

Comment by Ullenet

I didn't get hit with it once! xD

-Druid healer ran circles around the dragon the whole time, casting Lifebloom and Rejuvenation on everyone. It's the last boss so I was fine with going oom.-Continuously jumping works too.

Comment by Vraex

For anyone without their proto drake in Cata, this is very soloable

I went in there as a lvl 85 Fury Warrior ilvl 359. Just strafe around him and you should do enough dmg. I got stuck to the ground once but I popped my pvp trinket and finished him off. Note, he did something that hit hard, dropped me down quick. I killed him with 400 health left (max was 130k) but I didn't use Enraged Regen, so the boss is very easy.

Attempt 2: Exact same, except save Beastial Wrath. Use Master's Call on first Crystal Chain, Beastial Wrath on 2nd, and by the 3rd, I was expecting to be able to use Masters's Call again (because it was off cooldown). However, I resisted the next 2 Crystal Chains, and I didn't need to use it. Success.

Suggestions: Follow my "Attempt 2" Strategy, except if having issues, try adding a Free Action Potion, and PvP trinket after using Master's Call / Beastial Wrath. Should be no problem.

Comment by Calyrn

Arcane mages = Pure damage.

Simple enough in theory, hell to execute. Pop clones, Do your normal damage round, pop time warp somewhere there and hopefully the boss will die before your clones. And remember to move a tiny bit and to blink out of the freeze.

Comment by Darkicon

Very easy as a 358 MM hunter. If you're MM, all you'll need is Master's Call and maybe Readiness. I just used Aspect of the Fox and moved forward and backward always to avoid Intense Cold. Used Master's Call to get rid of Crystal Chains. Downed her before she could pull off another but if she did, I would've just popped Readiness and another Master's Call.

Comment by tunasteak

I was struggling to solo this 1 as a DK. Magic shield C/D wasn't fast enough to protect me from the second time he stacked Intense Cold & i didn't have a PVP trink. So I had a mate tank him while i DPS'd. I got the Achievement, he obviously didn't.

Comment by laviathan

i need help doing the intense cold achievement for the glory of the hero achievement im a paladin tank and i've tried it but the boss Keristrasza keeps getting more that 2 stacks of intense cold how do i do it and stop her from getting more than 2 stacks of intense cold on me and is it possible for all people in the group to get the achievement if only one of the group hasn't had more then 2 stacks of it on them?

Comment by xaan1

85 ret pally ilvl373 and its do-able , i just ran in a circle around her and dps'd her , she once stuck me to the ground and i used every man for himself to free me , stacks never got on me once , easy peasy peeps!

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Comment by Xilph

Just did this as a Blood DK. No special items needed. For her first Crystallize, use Anti-Magic Shell. For her second, use Icebound Fortitude. For her third(if she's still alive. Only got off two on me), AMS should be off CD.

Comment by Chipfoose

went back in and demolished her as frost(395), killed her b4 she could get 1 chain off

Comment by alber

I have found out that you can not do it yourself

Comment by SolidSnack

Just did this on my Guardian Druid (ilvl ~384). Somehow, I didn't get hit by the debuff that binds me, so it was rather easy. I wonder why. I was actually worried I'd have to leave and get a PvP trinket to do this.

Comment by Witherin

Did it on my 90 SV hunter. Very fast. Popped Stampede and Rapid Fire and blazed away with Arcane Shot while moving around. I don't think he even had a chance to get off his Intense Cold at all.

Comment by Kaleesh

A word of warning for prospective soloers: You are probably going to need two snare breaks over the course of the fight unless you have decent DPS. As a Guardian druid, Stampeding Roar's cooldown is too long, and I had to go all the way back to SW to buy a trinket. It's possible you'll get lucky, but I'd prepare if I were you!

Comment by cville1987

Did this 2 days ago and it was really easy on ilvl 499 Frost Mage. It took 9 seconds but like a lot of old content recently it appears to be bugged as I did not get the achievement. I have a ticket in, I'll update when I hear something.

Comment by judybooty

Frost Mages: Mirror Image, Time Warp, Icy Veins, Elemental, Frozen Orb .. Run around and Nether Tempest like mad. Use Blink if frozen. Ice Lance and Frostfire bolt if you can get one off. Took less than 10 seconds, Level 90 500+ gear.

Comment by Ethna

No comments yet for level 100 so just throwing this in. Just nuke her as soon as she is free, after clicking the three orbs around her, and you will get the achievement.